Classical conditioning

After learning two types of conditioning, namely: classical conditioning and operant conditioning, I felt really interested in getting to know both concept better by relating to my daily life habits. Now, I will describe a classical conditioning closely related to a type of Vietnamese tradition which most of Vietnamese people once experienced during their babyhood. In the past, every Vietnamese woman could sing a lullaby song for their babies in order to make them easily fall asleep. However, the question is how the singing and the baby’s need to sleep can have something to do with each other. My question for this fact has not yet come to light until the term “classical conditioning” came to my sense and I started to understand the mechanism of that phenomenon. As a matter of fact, every baby needs to sleep at a certain time of the day, and at that time, the baby will unconsciously yawn, which is an obvious signal for wanting to sleep. Whenever seeing the baby yawn, Vietnamese mothers will usually sing a lullaby to signal that sleeping time is coming. From this observation, it can be concluded that the desire to sleep at a certain of the day is an unconditioned stimulus and yawning is an unconditioned response. If you do not know the reason why Vietnamese mothers usually do that, I will try to have some simple explanation right now. Having your own babies or getting to know babies through various sources of information, a person would understand how hard it is to take care of a baby. It is a tedious but at the same time a scarifying job for any parents to wake up at 3am or even 4am in the morning on the account that the baby is crying. At those thought to be tiresome moment, some Vietnamese mothers are able to put the baby back to sleep as soon as possible by singing a lullaby for them. Surprisingly, even though the baby is still small and the consciousness have not fully develop to actually systematically learn something, but through the habit of hearing the